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The rain stayed away last week, allowing combines to keep rolling across the province. The weekly crop report from the province has harvest at 83 per cent complete, up from 69 per cent the week before...

People heading to the Heritage Classic at Mosaic Stadium on Saturday may be battling the elements. A storm system is expected to enter the province late Friday and stick around through Saturday, accor...

A new pool will have to wait a bit longer for the town of Lanigan, southeast of Saskatoon. The community was one of four finalists in the Kraft Heinz Project Plat contest, but didn't receive enough vo...

Voter turnout in Saskatchewan was higher than the national average. A total of 570,505 people in the province made it out to the polls for Monday's federal election. That's 71.7 per cent of eligible v...

There will be two new faces representing Saskatoon in the House of Commons. Conservative Brad Redekopp beat the incumbent, Sheri Benson of the New Democrats, in Saskatoon West in a race that was close...

This harvest season has been difficult for many Saskatchewan farmers, and especially so for a family near Southey who lost their husband and father earlier this month. Dan Zurowski put a call out to o...

Six Saskatchewan Crown corporations have reached a tentative agreement with Unifor to end a 17-day labour dispute, the Crown Investments Corporation (CIC) announced Sunday afternoon. The Crown corpora...

During the Thanksgiving long weekend, 149,043 people cast early ballots in Saskatchewan's 14 federal ridings. That compares to 91,891 advance votes in the 2015 federal election. A breakdown provided b...

The City of Saskatoon has recovered more money that it lost to a fraud scheme in August. Just over two-thirds of the $1.04 million lost has been recovered, bringing the total dollar amount recovered s...

Elections Canada said Tuesday that preliminary estimates show 4.7 million people cast a ballot at advance polls for this year's election. That's an increase of 29 per cent over 2015's advance poll vot...